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If not for our brains, our eyes wouldn’t be able to process anything. Considering how much time we spend with our eyes open, our brains are constantly dealing with an influx of visual data. The brain needs to store that data somewhere, and thanks to scientists over at the University...

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Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto have developed some powerful computational tools which use blood flow data from MRI scans to predict what a person is experiencing in dreams. Their results were published yesterday in Science, along with considerable fanfare. Before studies like this can be taken...

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Being as chiseled as I am is tough. You have to eat right (brownies only every other day), exercise (take the stairs to the attic), and keep tabs on things like your heart rate and body temperature while playing Sim City. That’s why the Basis is one of the best...

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LifeBEAM has launched an Indiegogo campaign today in order to put its new smart cycling helmet, which includes a built-in heart rate sensor, into full production. The company has a pretty impressive track record to take note of. The startup, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, specializes in remote monitoring...

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NASA is leveraging Google's Hangout system to pitch questions from the public to astronauts on the ground--and in space. NASA, as promised, is busy conducting a Google hangout so that members of the public can ask questions of astronauts--both in the studio and in orbit around the Earth aboard...

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Two weeks ago, with the sun shining and little buds emerging from tree branches, I got frostbite while skiing. Not just a little frostbite; several of my toes were snow white. Thankfully I didn't lose the toes but it took ten minutes in a hot shower for them to slowly...

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Using an fMRI scan on the brain of a Canadian man, the medical team could deduce yes and no answers to simple questions. A Canadian man left in a persistent vegetative state following a car crash 12 year ago, has been able to tell doctors how he feels. The...

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An Israeli student has become the first person to meld his mind and movements with a robot surrogate, or avatar. Situated inside an fMRI scanner in Israel, Tirosh Shapira has controlled a humanoid robot some 2000 kilometers (1250 miles) away, at the Béziers Technology Institute in France, using just his...

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Remember the Basis Band, that fitness-tracking wristband that was supposed to come out earlier this year? Well, the company obviously missed its target for an "early 2012" launch, but it's been busy refining the product and publishing intermittent blog posts to let people know how the device has been...

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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have created a map showing how and where the brain categorizes the actions and objects we see every day. The study began by taking five human subjects and placing them in an MRI machine while they each watched two hours of movie...

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Researchers at Rice University are conducting tests on a molecule they believe could play an important role in limiting brain damage in a wide variety of injuries. The nanoparticle, polyethylene glycol-hydrophilic carbon clusters (hereafter referred to as PEG-HCC) is already being tested as a means of enhancing certain cancer treatments....

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Ubisoft let the press play with its upcoming gladiator combat game Spartacus Legends, and we got our hands on the Streetfighter-style fighting game. The game will be one of the first free-to-play third-party games on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade platform on the Xbox 360. It’s based on the Spartacus...

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We'll say this about Basis: no one can accuse it of rushing products to market. It was a whole year ago back at CES 2012 that the company first announced its fitness band, which only just went on sale six weeks ago. It's a pretty promising device, actually, with...

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Pulse Oximeters are an essential hospital tool and serious athletes rely on them to track the efficiency with wich they pump oxygen into their blood stream. Masimo's new iSpO2 puts these rather important health metrics within reach of the consumer by tying the sensor to your favorite iOS device...

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If depression has an evolutionary purpose, it's certainly not obvious. Depression makes people consider suicide and less interested in sex, which does not encourage the species' survival. But two evolutionary psychologists theorize that depression's purpose is enhanced mental skills. Photo by kevindooley. Sadness focuses the brain's attention on a conflict,...

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Quantified Self enthusiasts are getting their fair share of excitement at CES this week. Basis first unveiled its intriguing health-tracking watch at the event last year, but after hiccups and lawsuits, the company finally launched its product on the market in November. At launch, however, the band looked great and...

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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a new kind of software that's able to amplify subtle variations between frames of a video so that you can actually see a person's pulse. By changing the frequencies of the software, it's possible to view things such as the...

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There are four major players in the fitness wristband business now: FitBit, Jawbone, Nike, and Basis. They’re jockeying prices and features to get your dollars, but sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. That’s why we’ve created the chart above to help you take the leap. You should...

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The Seattle area continues to be a hotbed of innovation in the field of ultrasound technology, with news today that Kona Medical has attracted a $30 million round of venture capital financing. The Bellevue company, which is developing methods to reduce high blood pressure using ultrasound, is backed by Essex Woodlands,...

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Ever had that feeling when you’ve woken up after a sleep but can’t remember what you were dreaming about? Findings from a new study, published this week, suggest that technology could soon make that scenario a thing of the past. Scientists in Kyoto, Japan, have built a ‘dream-reading’ machine that has...